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I think this is where me and you rarely disagree. I absolutely hate games like this but if you don't seed, you could have one of these teams that are not deserving and absolutely horrible, going to the regional tournament while a much deserving team, who may have won 20 games that season, sitting at home watching the "bad" team lose by 50 in a game they could have won. If a team is mediocre or just plain horrible in the regular season, they are the same in the tournament. You do not need to reward teams for being bad. That is what "blind draws" does. You can use other ways to seed, but I absolutely deplore seeding by using Cantrell ratings. It wouldn't be that big of a deal in the 53rd(boys and girls) due the discrepency between the top two and the bottom two, but I think in the 54th where you have three of the top teams, anything other than seeding is a farce

And I have seen this happen more than once and when it does it is unfair. I just don't see it as any more unfair than forcing these teams to waste four games per season, every season, playing teams that they have to try not to beat too bad. What I really think would be best will never happen and you probably will definitely disagree with me on this one. I would actually prefer to have a divisional system put into place which is what I first thought they were headed toward when the started the All A, but it didn't happen. Let LCC, PCC, KCC, Haz etc fight it out with each other and the other top teams around the state. Then the lesser competitive schools can have their own division where they can all compete without taking beatings in half their games. Have a Division I and a Division II district, regional, and state tournament. I just get tired of hearing how horrible KCC and LCC are because they won't take it easy on those little grade school kids.